Investigating the relationship between organizational cynicism and organizational commitment with the mediating role of quality of work life

The purpose of this study is to explain the role of mediating the quality of work life in relation between organizational pessimism and organizational commitment among North Korean students. The research method is descriptive survey-correlation type. The statistical population of this research is the total number of 210 employees in the northern Khorasan province. The sample size was determined by Grigose and Morgan tables of 131 people. The research method is simple random sampling. The data were collected by library and field method and the tools used were standard quality of work life, organizational commitment and organizational pessimism. The reliability of the questionnaires was determined using Cronbach's alpha method to assess the quality of working life (0.949), organizational pessimism (0.781), organizational commitment (0.912), and validity of the tool was confirmed by content method. Bootstrapping method was used to investigate the mediating effect of organizational pessimism variable. According to the reported results, the indirect path of organizational cynicism → quality of work life → organizational commitment, with 95% confidence, is significant. According to the Bootstrap decision-making diagram, the final step is to test the direct path between organizational pessimism and Organizational commitment in the model is influenced by the mediating variable of the quality of working life. Structural equation modeling and AMOS 24 software were used for statistical analysis of the collected data. For a coefficient to be significant, its significance number must be out of range (1.96, -1.96). According to the critical ratio (CR) values obtained in each hypothesis, the results indicate the significance of the relationships between all hypotheses.For this purpose, the results showed that the organizational pessimism-organizational commitment is negative (-0.17) and significant. Therefore, according to the Bootstrap decision making diagram, the quality of work life mediates negatively the negative impact of organizational pessimism on organizational commitment, so the hypothesis is confirmed.